The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-19

out TO sing over Mount ArafuU. Inc tuupS
that bloomed this summer in the flower bed
were nursed of last winters snow flakes.
The furthereSt star on one side the universe
could not look to the furtherest star on the
! other side and say: You are no relation
TO me;' for from that bright orb voice of
light would ring across the heavens respond
ing Yes, yes; we are sisters" Sir
Sidney Smith in prison was playing lawn
tennis in the yard and the ball flew
over the wall Another ball containing
letters was thrown hack, and so commune
cation was opened with the outside world,
and Sidney Smith escaped in time
to defeat Bonapartes Egyptian
expedition. What small ac-
cident connected with what vast
result Sir Robert Peel from "A pattern he
drew on the back of pewter dinner plate
got suggestions of that which led to the im-
portant invention by which calico is printed.
Nothing in Gods universe swings at loose
ends. Accidents are only Gods way of
turning leaf in the book Of his eternal de-
crees From our cradle To our grave there
is path all marked out. Each event in
our life is connected with every other event
in our life. Our loss may be the most
direct road to our gain. Our defeats and
victories are twin brothers The whole
direction OF your life was changed by some
thing which at the time seemed to you u
trifie, while some occurrence which seemed
tremendous affected you but little. The
Rev. DR.. Kennedy, of Basking Ridge, New
Jersey, went into his pulpit one Sabbah and
by strange freak OF memory forgot
! his subject and forgot his text and in
great embarrassment rose before his
audience, and announced tho circumstance
and declared himself entirely upable TO
preach then launched forth in a few earnest
words of entreaty and warning, which re-
suited in the outbreaking of the mightiest
revival of religion ever known in that State,
a revival of religion that resulted ill
churches still standing, and in the conyer-
sion of a large number of men who entered
the Gospel ministry, who have brought their
thousands into the kingdom Of God. Gods
plans are magnificent beyond all compre-
hension. He mould us, turns and directs us,
and we know it not Thousands of years
are to Him but as the fight of n shuttle.
The most terrific occurrence does not make
God tremble, and the most triumphant
achievement does not lift Him into rapture.
That one great thought of God goes on
through the centuries and nations rise and
fall, and oras pass, and the world itself
changes, but God still keeps the undivided
mastery, linking event to event and cen
tury to century. To God they are ell one
event, one history, one plan, one develop
ment, one system Great and marvellous
are Thy works, Lord God Almighty.
tie propriety of laying up for the future.
During seven years of plenty Joseph pre-
pared for the famine, and when it came ne
had crowded storehouse. The life of most
men in worldly respect is divided into
years of plenty and famine. 1t is seldom
that any man passes through life without at
least seven years of plenty. During these
seven prosperous years your business bears
rich harvest. You hardly know where
all the money comes from, it comes so
fast. Every bargain you make seems to
turn into gold. You contract few bad
debts You are astounded with large divi-
dends. You invest more and more capital.
You wonder how men can be content with
a small business gathering in only hundred
thousands. These are the seven
years of plenty. Now, Joseph, is the time TO
prepare for famine, for to almost every man
there do come seven years OF famine You
will be sick you will be unfortunate you
will be defrauded you will be disappointed; !;
you will be old, and if you have no store
house upon which TO fall back You may be
famine struck. We have no admiration for
this denying ones self of all present COM
fort and luxury for the mere pleasure of
boarding up, this grasping for the mere
pleasure of seeing how large pile yoa can
get, this always being poor and crampsd,
because as soon as a dollar comes in 1t Is
sent out TO see if it can't find another dollar
to carry home on its back; but there Is an
intelligent and noble-minded forecast which
we love TO see in men who have families
and kindred dependent upon them for the
blessings of education and home. God sends
us to the insects for lesson, which
while they do not stint themselves in the
present, do not forget their duty to forestall
the future: ''Go TO the ant, thou sluggard,
consider her ways and be wise, which,
having no guide, overseer, or ruler, pro
yideth her meat in the summer and
gathereth her food in the harvest" Now
there are two ways Of laying up money;
the one by investing it in stock and deposit
ing it in banks and loaning il on bond and
mortgage. The other way Of laying up
money Is giving it away lie is the safest
who makes both of these investments But
the man who devotes none of his gain TO the
cause of Christ, and thinks only OF his own
comfort and luxury, is not safe. don't
care how his money is invested He
acted as the rose II it should say: 81
will hold my breath and no one shall have a
snatch of fragrance from me until next
week, and then will set all the garden
afoat with the aroma The time comes
but having been without fragrance for so
long, it has nothing then to give. But above
all lay up treasures in heaven. They never
depreciate in value. They never are at a
discount. They are always available. You
may feel safo now with your present yearly
income but what will such an income be
worth after you are dead. Others will get
it,. Perhaps some of them will quarrel
about il before you are buried. They will
be right glad that you are dead. They are
only waiting for you 10 die. What then
will all your accumulation he worth If you
could gather il all into your bosom and
walk up with it to heaven 3 gatei It would
not purchase your admission; or, If allowed
TO enter it would not buy you crown, or a
robe and the poorest saint in heaven would
look down and say: where did that pau
per come from"
Finally Learn from this subject that in
in every famine there is a storehouse. Up
the long row of building piled 20 the very
roof with corn come the hungry multitudes,
and Joseph commanded that their sacks aud
their wagons be filled. The world has been
blasted. Every green thing has wthered
under the touch'of sin. From all continents
and islands and zones comes up the groan Of
dying millions. Over tropical spice-groye,
and Siberian ice-hut, and Hndoo Jungle the
blight has fallen. The famine is
universal. But, glory be- TO Cod there
is great storehouse. Jesus
Christ our elder brother, this day bids us
come in from our hunger and beggary. and
obtain infinite supplies OF grace enough to
make US rich forever. Many OK you have
for long while been smiiten Of the famine.
The world has not stilleI the throbbing of